Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether, and on what date, a pay business case from the Valuation Office Agency was received by his Department.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
The Cabinet Office has not received pay business cases from these organisations. In line with pay delegation, consultation and negotiation on pay takes place between individual employers and local trade unions. The Cabinet Office does not consult or negotiate pay. A response to PCS Union's letter will be issued shortly.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if will place in the House of Commons Library a copy of the new Mitie Business Services organisational chart covering the Government Property Agency’s Affiliate Cluster.
Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg
The department does not intend to publish this document because of commercial sensitivities and security considerations.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to issue the invitation to tender for (a) Physical Security Guard Services and (b) Hard and Soft Facilities Management Services in each region as part of the Government Property Agency Workplace Services Transformation Programme.
Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg
The current dates for the launch of the Physical Security Guard Services and Hard and Soft Facilities Management Services are (please note due to the nature of the programme the dates are subject to changes as required):
Security Services (Guarding) - CCS Framework RM 6089, Lot 1a - 04.08.22
North
South
Central
London
Hard FM and Soft FM - CCS Framework RM 3830, Lot 1b - 17.08.22
Soft FM - North
Soft FM - South
Soft FM - Central
Hard FM - North & Central
Hard FM and Soft FM - CCS Framework RM 3830, Lot 1c - 25.08.22
Soft FM - London
Hard FM - South & London
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the presentation slides on the Government Property Agency’s Workplace Services Transformation Programme that was delivered to the PCS Union in a meeting with the Government Property Agency on 13 June 2021.
Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg
Please find a copy of the presentation attached.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government Property Agency has made a delivery model assessment in respect of retendering facilities management contracts in 2022.
Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg
The GPA can confirm that the Workplace Transformation Programme (WSTP) Supply Chain Project (SCP) which has been initiated to Procure and deliver the Workplace Service contracts in 2022 has completed a Delivery Model Assessment (DMA).
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what equalities impact assessment his Department has undertaken in respect of the Government Property Agency's decision to retender their Facilities Management contracts in late 2022; and if he will place a copy of that equalities impact assessment in the Library.
Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg
At this stage no Equality Impact Assessment has been undertaken for the Government Property Agency (GPA) Workplace Services Transformation Programme that will see the procurement of new facilities management contracts in this current financial year. There is no legal requirement to carry out an Equality Impact Assessment and GPA is confident it has had due regard to the public sector equality duty.
The new facilities management contracts will be procured using Crown Commercial Service (CCS) framework agreements. The commercial terms of these agreements include obligations on suppliers to follow all applicable equality law including protections against discrimination and also any other requirements imposed by the authority in relation to equality law.